The EU doesn’t include the UK, Canada, Norway, or Turkey. It isn’t really a good NATO substitute.

I’m surprised it took this long. The complete chaos in the US offers a perfect opportunity for China to make its move.

Thank you for writing that longer post, it fills in a lot of detail that my friend tried to explain. It sounds like that transitional period will be VERY precarious. Would Serbians consider the help of an international group (the UN, or whoever you choose) to help keep things stable?

My understanding is that there isn’t really an obvious opposition party, right? Do you think once big-lips is finally gone that the replacement will be a complicated German-style coalition?

I have one Serbian friend who lives in a small town there and has been keeping me up to date on this. There are big marches every weekend and smaller ones every day, especially in the four university cities (Belgrade, Novi Sad, Nis and Kragujevac). The particularly interesting (to me) point that he raised is how much respect and support Serbs are getting from neighbouring countries, which, if you know anything about the Balkans, is truly remarkable. If they can pull this off it may have positive repercussions not only in Serbia but in the whole region.

Climate, and geopolitical too. Look at France vs Germany in the last few years.

I don’t know about fitgirl specifically, I don’t actually pirate a lot of games.

Grab 'em by the polity

Nice to finally see some movement from you guys. Keep it up!

It wouldn’t take much; they had multiple breaches and other problems last fall, seemingly due to very avoidable reasons.

How is it possible that it draws 100W at idle? What is it even doing?

“They can tell” implies "they can speak“

That… isn’t what that phrase means in English. I assume you’re new to the language?

It reads like a Beaverton article. It’s incredible. I’m still reading those lines BTW.

“The carbon tax is no longer the ballot box question,” a Conservative source in Western Canada told Radio-Canada. “But we’ve invested so much money fine-tuning that message, it’s hard to abandon it completely.”

“The start of a tariff war with the United States is changing voters’ moods. It’s harder to talk about a broken Canada when there’s a growing sense of patriotism,” another Conservative source said.

“The challenge is to demonstrate that the party can adapt quickly, that the leader can go beyond slogans and that he has more than one trick up his sleeve,” warns a third source close to the party.

I’ve re-read this at least five times and I’m still enjoying it every time.

Quite the opposite. We and Mexico haven’t changed anything at all and it’s Trump who looks like the clown he in fact is.

And a maritime border too. I really don’t know why or how the Netherlands come into the picture.

Still not much in the grand scheme of things. Smelting lead to extract silver would have been a far greater contributor, especially since it makes the lead airborne as leaded fuel did recently.

Lead plates are fine as long as you don’t eat anything that is both liquid and acidic. Pewter plates (when it was still made with lead) were used until very recently.

Fun fact: Romans were well aware of lead poisoning and preferred terracotta pipes. When they did use lead they allowed mineral buildup inside the pipes, which shielded the water from the lead itself.

This limestone encrustation (sinter, from the German), which had to be periodically chipped away, suggests that deposits of calcium carbonate in pipes and aqueducts protected against corrosion and insulated against the introduction of lead into the water they conveyed. Too, with no taps to shut off, water flowed continuously and so would not have been in prolonged contact with the metal. https://penelope.uchicago.edu/encyclopaedia_romana/wine/leadpoisoning.html

Oh nice, I’ll give this a shot! I tried installing the EA app through Lutris — it worked, but I can’t install any games.